A Voyage of the Emperor of ChinZy into theWeflern 
Tartary, in the Tear ^ 1683. 
THe Emperor this Year, which is the ^oth. of his 
Age, made a Voyage into the weftern T^rtary , to- 
gether with the Queen his Grand-mother, which they caU 
the Queen M^Vi^-r, hedeparted the i6.of in the Com- 
pany of more than 60000 Men, and 100000 Horfe. He 
poffitively refbived, that I, with one of the two Fathers 
that were at the Court of PeLinj the Choife of which he left 
to me, fhould follow him. I chole Father Philip GrimdAi \ 
becaufe he is the moft known, and becaule he perfeftly 
underftdod the 
Several Reafons prevailed with the Emperor to Enter- 
prife this Journy. Thefirftwas, that he might keep his 
Militia during the Peace as well as in the^ Warrs, in con- 
tinual Exercife ; and for this Reafbn it was, that after he 
had eftabliHi't a firm Peace in all the Quarters of this fb 
vaft an Empire; he recalled his beft Troops hither out of 
every Province, and refolved in his Councel to make every 
Year Expeditions of this kmd, in feveral Seafbns, that 
by hunting of Deer, Bores, Bears, and Tigres, they niight 
learn to overcome the Enemys of the Empire, or at leaft to 
prevent the cooling of their Courage, or the degenerating 
from their Priftine Valour, by the Luxury oiChim^ in a too 
longRepofe. 
In efFed thefe kinds of Hunting had more of the fliew of 
a jViilitary Expedition, then of one for Divertifement, as I 
have already noted : The Emperor took in his Train, 
1 00000 Horfe, and above 60000 Men, all armed with 
Arrows and Cimiters, divided into Companys and March- 
ing 
